The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-01-29
THE PARISHES.
FRANKLIN.

eng, bsaldiDgs, &c, has been great.
Owing To the unusually dry weather
the grass is like finder, and with the
high Winds that have been prevailing,
obce started, the fire is very difficult
10 master. The loss in rails alone will
amount to several thousand dollars.
1t is difficult to i,emize the several
tossfs, AS almost every eighborhood
has suffered more or less. Copsidera-
bic damage was done to the old Ed
dins, now Chaffe, place, a great deal
Of fencing being consumed, and several
cabins, including crib containing 500
bushels of corn and valuable lot OF
farming implements. Yves, CT town,
much fencing was ccusun,,.i or the
Bruce and Hampton places. The pfai-
rie suffered also considerably as did the
Big Creek neighborhood. Close to
town nearly every citizen had to take
turn al fighting fre.-tSh,s.
CALDWELL.
The two year Old child of Nose
Eantley, weil-to-do coiored man liv
ing just below town, was burned to
death one day this week. The same
carelessness, rs is usual in such cases,
Was the cause. The parents We're alb
sent, leaving no one in charge of the
house except three small children, the
eldest about six years Old. Report says
that when the mother Of the children
returned it was lying on the gallery
dead, where it is supposed to have
went when it took fire. us clothes
were all burnt Off and the floor be-
meath it still on fire. This is about
the third or fourth child in this par
ish during the past two months that
has been burned to death, and all
under like circumstances. Why is it
that people will persist in this habit
OF leaving their children at home,
when they know that it is the dispo-
sition of child to play in the fire, and
that when they leave them in a
house where there is fire, that they do
it at the peril Of their child's life. AS
we have said before, the custom is not
alone with the colored people, but
prevails more or less with the white
people. 1t should be stopped in some
way. This thing of being roasted
alive is awful to conte,nplate.-U atch-
man.
MOREIIOUSE.
The Clarion furnishes us with the
following newsy Morehouse notes;
The "exodus' of the negroes of this
l parish to Arkansas is about at an end
Some of the farmers state that owing
to the emigration it will be pinct
for them to work all of their farms.
Bayou Bartholomew is lower now
at this time of year than it has beer
known fc hl. fur - Il .,
be fordable. The walchousemen q
Point Pleasant, with a fortorn hope
watch the heavens with much in
terest.
l We understand that Mr.. Lee John
!, son died last Saturday morning from
the effects Of an overdose of morphin,
at his home in the seventh ward. I
seems that the deceased geutlema,
was affected with chronic diseas,
, and it was necessary for him to habit
uaiiy use morphine.
t The young men who got on the war
path some time since at the More
. house Central School plead guilty. Thu
r Judge sentenced them to six hour
! confinement in the parish prison. Tn,
Q boys have just passed by the writer or
? their way 10 the jail, and we could no
r help noticing that they looked ''mcd
| tatiIy.'
On the Williams plantation 0,
Bayou Bartholomew a negro boy ac
cidentaily killed himself last Saturday
!. :. 1t seems that he was out hunting bird
:. when he got his gun stopped up, ant
while twisting the load out of on
. barrel, the other, which he had nesti
. gently left cooked, fired off and dis
charged the whole load through hi
. breast, coming outh through the bacl
of his neck. Death cnsued instantly
Mr.. w. p. Arant, who lives thre
Or four miles from town, while in th
| jury box Wednesday, was informed
that his house had been totally de
stroyed by fire. AT the present writip,
we have not learned whether Mr.
Arant was insured or not, but we sup
pose that there was no insurance. Mr.
Arant is not very well TO do and wha
he has accumulated has been done b,
the hardest Of labor. The Clarion sym
pathiZns with him in his loss.
An Auburn lady tells this abou
Roscoe ConkIing: acne day whe,
Roscoe was visiting my fathers fam
=, lily the horse and sulky We're brough
up TO the door and my father WAS jus
getting ready to start out for rid,
among his patients. Young Roscoe, wht